--- title: "Vanquished Co-Founder (The Thinker) — Anamorphic Sculpture" description: ""As I gaze upon 'Vanquished Cofounder', the fragmented sculpture I created, it feels like staring into a mirror that reflects the most tumultuous chapter o" lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sentient.art/#org", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "legalName": "Mathematics of Self Ltd.", "alternateName": "Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "url": "https://sentient.art/", "logo": "https://sentient.art/sentient-art-logo-dark.png", "founder": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yifat Davidoff" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sentient.art/#website", "url": "https://sentient.art/", "name": "Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "description": "Sculpture editions and unique artworks by Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff — where art meets science.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sentient.art/#org" } } ] }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "WebPage", "name": "Loading edition…", "description": "Loading edition details", "url": "https://sentient.art/edition/vanquished-co-founder-the-thinker", "isPartOf": { "@type": "WebSite", "name": "Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "url": "https://sentient.art" } }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sentient.art/#org", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "legalName": "Mathematics of Self Ltd.", "url": "https://sentient.art/", "logo": "https://wdrxdfvnnrdahkzifhxs.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/blog-assets/site-settings/logo/1779723800851-m6hr4e-Original-Sentient-Logo-Black.png", "founder": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yifat Davidoff" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sentient.art/#website", "url": "https://sentient.art/", "name": "Official Site: Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "description": "Art born from science. Jonty reveals hidden forces of reality through works that make perception shift. Everything is not as it seems.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sentient.art/#org" } } ] }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "VisualArtwork", "name": "Vanquished Co-Founder (The Thinker)", "url": "https://sentient.art/edition/vanquished-co-founder-the-thinker", "image": "https://fgxztnkqkimoutnckwrs.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/edition-images/edition-355fac8b-faab-4f01-8393-8e67daf34a63-compressed-1779669581550.jpg", "inLanguage": "en", "dateCreated": "2010", "artMedium": "Resin, Gypsum, Steel And Perspex", "artworkSurface": "35w x 65h x 150d", "description": "\"As I gaze upon 'Vanquished Cofounder', the fragmented sculpture I created, it feels like staring into a mirror that reflects the most tumultuous chapter of my life. The figure, a clown smoking a joint, is more than just a sculpture; it's a piece of my soul. This clown, a symbol of irony and jest, embodies the surreal and often absurd world I found myself in as I built and ran a multi-billion pound company, in a world of \"loans\" I could never truly connect with. The disjointed pieces of the sculpture, scattered and chaotic, are like fragments of my own experiences – broken, yet vivid memories of a life that once was.Through the lens of anamorphic perspective, this chaos resolves into a coherent image, but only from a certain angle, much like how the clarity of my own situation only came into focus when viewed from the vantage point of hindsight. The act of the clown smoking a joint, to me, represents a defiance, a rebellion against the norms of the corporate world that I could never fully embrace.Each fragment of the sculpture is a remnant of my journey – successes that felt hollow, laughter that never reached my eyes, and a sense of victory that crumbled as quickly as my startup did. 'Vanquished Cofounder' is not just a title; it's a confession, a realization of my own defeat and the liberation that came with it. This sculpture is my catharsis, a way to express the emotional whirlwind of being lost and found, of building something extraordinary and then watching it collapse. 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The figure, a clown smoking a joint, is more than just a sculpture; it's a piece of my soul. This clown, a symbol of irony and jest, embodies the surreal and often absurd world I found myself in as I built and ran a multi-billion pound company, in a world of "loans" I could never truly connect with. The disjointed pieces of the sculpture, scattered and chaotic, are like fragments of my own experiences – broken, yet vivid memories of a life that once was.Through the lens of anamorphic perspective, this chaos resolves into a coherent image, but only from a certain angle, much like how the clarity of my own situation only came into focus when viewed from the vantage point of hindsight. The act of the clown smoking a joint, to me, represents a defiance, a rebellion against the norms of the corporate world that I could never fully embrace.Each fragment of the sculpture is a remnant of my journey – successes that felt hollow, laughter that never reached my eyes, and a sense of victory that crumbled as quickly as my startup did. 'Vanquished Cofounder' is not just a title; it's a confession, a realization of my own defeat and the liberation that came with it. This sculpture is my catharsis, a way to express the emotional whirlwind of being lost and found, of building something extraordinary and then watching it collapse. It's a testament to a time in my life where I felt most alive yet utterly lost, a period that forever changed who I am as an artist and as a human being." 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